Garment-fastening.



Patented Jan. 8, i90l. C. H. SMITH.

GARMENT FASTENING. (Application filed Dec. 18. 1899.)

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CHARLES HAZOR SMITH, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

GARMENT-FASTENING.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent N 0. 665,479, dated January8, 1901.

Application filed December 18, 1899- .aerial No. 740,675- (No model.)

T0 on whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CHARLES HAZOR SMITH,

a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Chicago, in thecounty of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Garment-Fastenings, of which the following is aspecification.

My invention relates to certain improvements in a holding deviceintended for use by tailors, dressmakers, and other fitters of clothing,designed to temporarily secure in place the pieces of a garment as thesame are fitted or adjusted to the wearer in the course of theirmanufacture. This has ordinarily been done by the use of common pinspassed through both pieces of fabric, which makes the goods awkward tohandle, is insecure, and interferes with the sewing up at the points ofunion.

The object of the invention is to combine two holding devices by meansof an adjustable connection, so that said devices may be secured,respectively, to the adjoining pieces of the garment, adjusted to theproper position, and securely held there until the same is completed.

To such end the invention consists in certain novel characteristicscontained in the preferred form of the invention shown and describedherein, said characteristics being definitely pointed out in the claim.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a plan view of the complete device. Fig. 2is a section in line 2 2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a section in line 3 3 ofFig. 1, and Fig. 4 an end elevation of the right-hand portion of Fig. 1looking in the direction of the arrow 4 of said figure.

The preferred device herein shown contains two ordinary safety-pins A B.A plate 0 is bent about one end of the safety-pin A and secured by meansof an eye 0 to a chain D, preferably provided at its free end with aring d. About one side of the safety-pin B is bent a plate E, one end ofwhich bears two ears 6, projecting in the same direction and embracingthe other end e of the plate, which is preferably formed so as to act asa spring pressing toward the ends of the ears. Between the ears ispivoted a bent lever F, having a handle f, extending alongside of theplate E, and a short end f, extending toward the end e of said plate.Said lever is shown so arranged with reference to the handle f that whenthe latter strikes the plate E, as seen in Fig. 3, the short end of thelever will have passed beneath the pivotal axis, so that the tension ofthe spring tends to hold the lever in the position shown. This furnishesa secure grip upon the chain and at the same time provides easy means ofadjustment.

In the use of the device the garments are placed upon the person who isto wear them, the pins AIB secured to the contiguous portions of thegarment which need adjustment, and said portions then drawn up to aperfect fit and secured in position by adj usting the chain D in theclasp-plate E. The garment is then taken off and sewed up at theconvenience of the tailor or dressmaker. It is impossible for thedifierent parts to get out of place, and at the same time the pins maybe located so far apart as to not interfere in the least with the sewingup of the garment between them.

While the fitting of garments, as described above, is the use to which Ihave thus far applied my invention, and while its utility for thatpurpose is evident, it is equally evident that it may be applied toother uses in which it is desirable to so connect any two parts that thespace between them may be readily and conveniently varied. It will beunderstood, therefore, that I do not intend to limit the invention tothe use hereinabove pointed out, but that I desire to claim it no matterwhat its function may be. As shown in the drawings and hereinbeforedescribed, the device has the details of construction which I haveembodied in it in reducing it to practical and operative form. It willbe evident,

however, to any mechanic that these details may be greatly varied, theessential requisite being that the safety-pins shall be joined by asuitably-adjustable connecting element, so that the distance between thepins may be conveniently changed in the use of the de- For most purposesthe chain will be vice.

found most desirable, for the reason that it is flexible, easilyfastened,and very durable; but evidently the chain may be replaced by acord, tape, or Wire or even by some device made up of parts adjustablewith relation to each other. I desire, therefore, not to limit theinvention to the combination of the exact elements shown in thedrawings, but, on the contrary, to give it the scope indicated in thefollowing claim.

I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent The combinationwith the pins, A, B, of the plate, E, secured about one of said pins,having its two ends extending in the same direction, one alongside ofthe other, one of said ends bearing the ears, 6, and the other endextending in the form of a spring between CHARLES HAZOR SMITH.

Witnesses:

CHAS. O. SHERVEY, S. Buss.

